News and Events

New and competing renewal awards made to faculty in the Department of Pediatrics for the month of November 2020 are announced.

The American Pediatric Society (APS) recently announced 55 new members, including Mara Becker, MD, MSCE, associate professor of pediatrics (Rheumatology), Eliana Perrin, MD, MPH, professor of pediatrics (Primary Care) and P. Brian Smith, MD, MPH, MHS, professor of pediatrics (Neonatology, Quantitative Sciences).

Six members of the Duke faculty, including Sallie Permar, MD, PhD, have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Ann M. Reed, MD, chair of the Department of Pediatrics, recently announced the appointment of Kyle Rehder, MD, as vice chair of education in the Department of Pediatrics, effective May 1, 2021.

New and competing renewal awards made to faculty in the Department of Pediatrics for the month of October 2020 are announced.

All Babies and Children Thrive (ABC Thrive) has awarded seed grants of up to $40,000 to four interdisciplinary teams of Duke faculty, including one co-led by Richard Chung, MD, associate professor of pediatrics in primary care and Scott Kollins, PhD, professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences.

A Duke Health-led research team has identified a key marker that will help speed effective vaccine designs for cytomegalovirus (CMV), the most common congenital infection worldwide and a leading cause of infant brain damage.

Marybeth Tetlow, a clinical nurse on the Duke Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant Unit, provides an excellent example of Duke Nursing ingenuity.

When the novel coronavirus began to spread across China, researchers at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute (DHVI) sprang into action and they haven’t slowed down since. They are collaborating with each other and with other institutions to unlock the secrets of the virus that causes COVID-19 and to develop tests, vaccines, and treatments.